Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

RT @EthanBWinter: cool table from @Nate_Cohn https://t.co/r7lU4mQzno https://t.co/qClwoLN0DA — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JakeAnbinder: "Mastodon? How about let's vote en masse to beat Don!" https://t.co/0i2O5v0p1w — PolitiTweet.org

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When I first moved to the neighborhood this was a dry cleaning shop and the French Shirt Laundry sign from those days is now inside the restaurant. But back in the day 14th Street was full of car-related businesses. — PolitiTweet.org

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@BenMillerise Yeah this is from the 60s before the French Shirt Laundry era. — PolitiTweet.org

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Le Diplomate prequel https://t.co/4bCl9Xl2YX — PolitiTweet.org

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I think the misinformation that’s done the most electoral damage to Democrats is the stuff that’s been spread by progressives groups to try to win intra-coalition battles. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ArmandDoma Borderline illegal — PolitiTweet.org

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We’ve a Natetroversy! Best part of any election season. — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's to the land of the free, where you don't need to hang your clothing up to dry it but if you did have to do that you'd have sunshine to help you get the job done. — PolitiTweet.org

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@BenjySarlin It's time for some game theory — PolitiTweet.org

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Thanks! https://t.co/w7zqwe7Q4O — PolitiTweet.org

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Most of what people correctly find dysfunctional about journalism outputs is not driven by the personal qualities of journalists, it’s a question of what performs in competitive digital landscape — negativity, overconfidence, alarmism, etc — PolitiTweet.org

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I agree with this thread except to inject one piece of nuance — journalists mostly *aren’t* freaking out. What’s happening is that overwrought takes coming from a minority of journalists overperform in terms of distribution. — PolitiTweet.org

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Comedy is now legal on Twitter. — PolitiTweet.org

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@kjhealy Yes that nails it. I remember coding blog posts in raw HTML with some tutelage from my CS major roommate — it was fun and being an early mover has given me tremendous lifelong advantages, but that's because almost nobody wanted to do that. — PolitiTweet.org

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@conorsen The obvious one to me is Meta could spin out a Twitter-like service using its existing userbase and connected to its existing ad tech, data, and messaging. — PolitiTweet.org

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@nilocobau @nbeaudrot I think that's backwards — Americans trust Republicans on the economy so the default is to vote for them. Recessions cause that trust to go away, so Democrats win. — PolitiTweet.org

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Switching surveys to the ANES, one key vulnerability of the existing political system is most people say "public officials don't care what people think" and that "people don't have a say in what the government does." https://t.co/al9j6P4x8v — PolitiTweet.org

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In the United States, women are more supportive of the "strong leader" than men are. https://t.co/1hANHWf0Ea — PolitiTweet.org

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Also some international data — Americans are more supportive of the "strong leader" than Finns or Spanish people, but much less so than people in Mexico or Vietnam. https://t.co/MLclESTaeL — PolitiTweet.org

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Got some questions about the time-series on this and @gelliottmorris said it would be better to consolidate into a simple good/bad dichotomy. So we can see most people favor democracy but the balance is shifting. https://t.co/ER0G8PGQkB — PolitiTweet.org

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It reminds me of when people used to say the inability to side-load apps on the iPhone would be an important disadvantage. What's true is that when you have a centralized system like the App Store, the decision-maker needs to make reasonable decisions. — PolitiTweet.org

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@erikbryn It's from the World Values Survey — hard to link to a specific output. https://t.co/53hJQvG58i — PolitiTweet.org

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Mastodon is the latest in a long line of doomed software projects led by idealists who don't understand that normal people place a very high value on things being simple and easy to use — Twitter is already too close to the Mastodon model to gain true mass acceptance. — PolitiTweet.org

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Really offended that @tweethunterIO would think I'd say this. https://t.co/xEE3mdZoLF — PolitiTweet.org

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@gelliottmorris I agree but WVS happens to ask about intensity and it seems relevant to a lot of the discourse around this topic. — PolitiTweet.org

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@StefanFSchubert It seems like among the set of smart, hardworking businesspeople with good ideas the very richest at any given time are likely to be somewhat overconfident people who got lucky. — PolitiTweet.org

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About a third of Americans say it would be “very bad” to have a strong leader who doesn’t bother with elections. Slightly more people — including *most* with no post-secondary education — think this would be good. https://t.co/g7GSmeqhyy — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @golden4congress: I was honored to join Maine firefighters in Bangor this week to receive their endorsement in this election. In Congre… — PolitiTweet.org

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@alexbaca I just don’t see the case for Silverman on housing — her stated agenda does not involve altering regulatory barriers to housing supply. https://t.co/UsD2bkzpNu — PolitiTweet.org